Vox populi : popular consultations and participatory processes

Fernández Ramos , S. y Pérez Monguió, J. M., Vox populi : popular consultations and participatory processes. Editorial Aranzadi, Cizur Menor, 2019.

Abstract

This work has the dogmatic approaches necessary to provide a solid basis for the legal analysis of popular consultations and participation processes, something that will be welcomed by jurists and public officials. In this way, the elements of referendary and non-referendary consultations are described, with support in the constitutional doctrine, with special attention to the distribution of competences.

However, the object of study of this work is especially the municipal popular consultation with referendary nature, on which very few Autonomous Communities have regulated the question (Balearic Islands, Andalusia, Navarre and Catalonia), where they stop especially, with surgeon's skill, in separating the concept of the referendary or non-referendary nature of the municipal consultations, the initiative and requirements to request them, who can participate in them, the regime of organization and competences, their binding nature in its case, given that materially the vote makes it possible to confuse its borders, as has been pointed out in autumn 2019 by the Supreme Court on a consultation regarding bullfighting festivities in San Sebastian.